I think adoption is a blessing all around when it’s done right.
Hugh Jackman
Not having children makes less work—but it makes a quiet house.
Susan Glaspell, journalist, Pulitzer Prize winner
The soul heals when you are around children.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian writer
Being a parent wasn’t just about bearing a child. It was about bearing witness to its life.
Jodi Picoult, American writer
Where do I come from? From my childhood. I come from my childhood as if it were a country!
Antoine de Saint-Exupery, French writer
In the houses with many children, like in the beautiful depths of the Romanian language, there’s no place left for boredom.
Grigore Vieru, Moldavian poet
Children are the hands by which we take hold of heaven.
Henry Ward Beecher, American abolitionist pastor, brother of Uncle Tom’s Cabin’s author
Anyone who thinks the art of conversation is dead ought to tell a child to go to bed.
Robert Gallagher, American writer
Wherever mother is, there is home.
Felicity Martin, American writer and photographer